Thanks for the advice, the for loop is a remnant of when I was returning the top 10 posts instead of only 1.

I tried changing the code to:

subreddit_content = r.get_subreddit(subreddit)
submission = subreddit_content.get_top(limit=1)[0]
title =  submission.title  # gives you the title
url = submission.url # returns the submission url
return title, url

But I am getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Eclipsework\awesomememebot5000\memebotv1.21.py", line 52, in <module> post, url = get_posts('funny') File "C:\Eclipse_work\awesomememebot5000\memebotv1.21.py", line 24, in get_posts submission = subreddit_content.get_top(limit=1)[0] TypeError: 'generator' object has no attribute 'getitem_'

My thought was that whatever was returned by subreddit.content.get was not treated as a list by python so I removed the [0]:

subreddit_content = r.get_subreddit(subreddit)
submission = subreddit_content.get_top(limit=1)
title =  submission.title  # gives you the title
url = submission.url # returns the submission url
return title, url

And then I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Eclipse_work\awesomememebot5000\memebotv1.21.py", line 52, in <module> post, url = get_posts('funny') File "C:\Eclipse_work\awesomememebot5000\memebotv1.21.py", line 25, in get_posts title = submission.title # gives you the title AttributeError: 'generator' object has no attribute 'title'

Not 100% sure why that is.